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"Oh, Sydney, which of these is Aunt Agatha?"
"Oh, Sydney, which of these is Aunt Agatha?"

"Oh, Sydney, which of these is Aunt Agatha?"

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1929
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon
DimensionsObject: 11 5/8 × 8 3/8 in. (29.5 × 21.3 cm) Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 3/8 in. (29.5 × 21.3 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.1772
"Oh dear - instead of your great-great aunt Polly I seem to be in touch with three spirits with little pointed heads."
"Oh dear - instead of your great-great aunt Polly I seem to be in touch with three spirits with little pointed heads."
Alan Dunn
1960
"...and there was a Trumbull married your great-great aunt in 1842, who fled to America. She was a Chishom from..."
"...and there was a Trumbull married your great-great aunt in 1842, who fled to America. She was a Chishom from..."
Alan Dunn
1944
"Fit' Avenue! Bless me Aunt Hannah, Bruce, if I ain't sick'n tired o' workin' for a lotta foreigners."
"Fit' Avenue! Bless me Aunt Hannah, Bruce, if I ain't sick'n tired o' workin' for a lotta foreigners."
Alan Dunn
1927
"Frankly, Miss Plackett, you have a slight overlapping of the lunar returns, but cheer up and this goes for all you Capricorns. You have Saturn conjunct Mercury, which deepens the mind, and you have Venus, the love planet in trine with Pluto, which really gives you the go-ahead provided, of course, the new earth satellite doesn't come along and gum things up."
"Frankly, Miss Plackett, you have a slight overlapping of the lunar returns, but cheer up and this goes for all you Capricorns. You have Saturn conjunct Mercury, which deepens the mind, and you have Venus, the love planet in trine with Pluto, which really gives you the go-ahead provided, of course, the new earth satellite doesn't come along and gum things up."
Alan Dunn
1957
“Well anyhow, we landed at ____on the ___of ___ and now at ___ which is 90 miles from______.”
“Well anyhow, we landed at ____on the ___of ___ and now at ___ which is 90 miles from______.”
Alan Dunn
1942
"There's nothing really complicated about it: if you live in a strategic-base area you come under the supervision of the World Security Council and its military staff, where as if you live in a trusteeship area you are governed by a trusteeship council which, like the economic and social council, serves under the authority of the General Assembly."
"There's nothing really complicated about it: if you live in a strategic-base area you come under the supervision of the World Security Council and its military staff, where as if you live in a trusteeship area you are governed by a trusteeship council which, like the economic and social council, serves under the authority of the General Assembly."
Alan Dunn
1945
"I really can't make up my mind who I hope gets here first. As I understand it, it would be a question of which you'd rather join, the Communist Party or the Teamsters Union."
"I really can't make up my mind who I hope gets here first. As I understand it, it would be a question of which you'd rather join, the Communist Party or the Teamsters Union."
Alan Dunn
1961
"As luck would have it, this is the very defect for which you've recalled it."
"As luck would have it, this is the very defect for which you've recalled it."
Alan Dunn
1972
"Incredible as it may seem to those of us who live in the world of anti-matter, a mirror image exists - the reverso of ourselves - which we can only call the world of matter."
"Incredible as it may seem to those of us who live in the world of anti-matter, a mirror image exists - the reverso of ourselves - which we can only call the world of matter."
Alan Dunn
c 1965
"Sir, I think Corporal Smith here has a suggestion which might facilitate our retreat."
"Sir, I think Corporal Smith here has a suggestion which might facilitate our retreat."
Alan Dunn
1940
"Eleventhy, it is incumbent upon us all, if we are to reach those goals of achievement which, althought of necessity high, are not on that account surely, to be thought impossible, earnestly to..."
"Eleventhy, it is incumbent upon us all, if we are to reach those goals of achievement which, althought of necessity high, are not on that account surely, to be thought impossible, earnestly to..."
Alan Dunn
1959
"During the academic year just closed, a situation arose which, were it to be permitted to continue, as I am sure it will not be, could be fraught only with..."
"During the academic year just closed, a situation arose which, were it to be permitted to continue, as I am sure it will not be, could be fraught only with..."
Alan Dunn
1959